The Nobel Prize in Literature 1994

Kenzaburo Oe

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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1994 was awarded to Kenzaburo Oe "who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today."

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